Harrison County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Courthouse Main Jail / Travis Street Jail Annex

Operated byHarrison County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — but only as two facility names in the Sheriff's phone list: "Courthouse Main Jail" and "Travis Street Jail Annex". The county site never uses the phrase "Harrison County Jail" on the pages checked.
Jail administrationCaptain John Hain (Jail Administrator); Lt. Brandon Headrick and Lt. Alton Fugler (Jail Operations); Staff Sgt. Tennisha Stoker and Staff Sgt. Jacob Pearson (Jail & Staff Compliance)
Jailer pay publishedJailer $48,889.57 to $59,430.18 on a four-step scale
What was triedhttps://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/page/Sheriff ; https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/page/BailBonds ; https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/page/Budgets ; https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/page/sitemap
Beds and population, 2026-08260 people held in 364 rated beds

Source: Harrison County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✗PREA audits — not published
✗Independent inspection — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Harrison County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-22. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds364 rated capacity — Texas Commission on Jail Standards population report dated 1 August 2026; the county itself publishes no bed count

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Brandon ‘BJ’ Fletcher

Published as"Sheriff Brandon ‘BJ’ Fletcher"
Chief DeputyHall Reavis
Jail AdministratorCaptain John Hain
Address200 West Houston, Marshall, TX 75670
Non-emergency(903) 923-4000
Courthouse Main Jail(903) 923-4003
Travis Street Jail Annex(903) 923-4008
Bonds & Fines(903) 923-4004

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Harrison County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county's JP overview page quotes Art. 2.09 and 2.10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and states that Justices of the Peace are magistrates.

County Judge

Chad Sims

County Court at Law

Joe Black

District Court

Brad Morin (71st Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

John Oswalt (Pct. 1)
Demisha Crawford (Pct. 2)
Gregg Greer (Pct. 3)
Nancy George (Pct. 4)

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-22

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The Sheriff's page offers "Court & Jail Records Search" linking to https://portal-txharrison.tylertech.cloud/PublicAccess/default.aspx — a Tyler Odyssey court-records portal, not a live in-custody roster. Scored 'roster' as no.
The 2025-2026 Adopted Budget is published (https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/upload/page/0103/docs/Adopted%20Budget%202025-2026.pdf) but is an 88-page scanned image with no extractable text, so the jail/detention line items could not be machine-verified.
The county runs a Bail Bond Board that licenses bonding companies and publishes rules, applications and a list of approved bonding companies, but it publishes no instructions on how to post a bond, so 'bond_info' is no.
Harrison County is not on the TCJS non-compliant jails list as of August 2026.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 William D. Hatfield, Precinct 2 Zephaniah Timmins, Precinct 3 Austin Koos, Precinct 4 Jay Ebarb; County Judge Chad Sims. Court meets every other Thursday at 9:00 a.m. in the Historic Courthouse Courtroom.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

3 people have died in the Harrison County jail since 2017.

0 by suicide

0 illness or medical

3 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them3 of 3

Deaths within the first week of arriving3

Most recent death on the state's record2025-09-14

People held, 2026-08260 in 364 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them73.8%

Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Harrison County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).

How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.

Names verified 2026-08-22 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered